A18A's 1989 Accord CA Thread

[Civic Accord Honda]

we call them windshields
lol

Windscreen > Windshield
Boot > Trunk
Bonnet > Hood
Petrol > Gas

[A18A]

haha yeah

[A18A]

i took it for a wof today, failed on:

both front upper ball joints
both front lower ball joints
broken engine mount
9001 exhaust leaks
fog lights not working

yay for it not being anything major

don't see why all the ball joints failed though, i only had 1 ball joint with play in it

[codyJDM]

lol shit they are serious over there!!

If I took my car they'd probably just kick me or something haha.

[A18A]

well it's a good piece of mind to know if your car is safe for the road, and since mine has faulty vital suspension components (which i would not have known!) i can replace them

so far ive replaced 2 upper ball joints, the exhaust & fixed the fog lights, just need to do lower ball joints & engine mount now. typical me leaving the gayest jobs till last

should have a wof tomorrow yay

[A18A]

heres a few pix
wonder who done this dodgy old exhaust leak repair which failed

teh slightly damaged engine mount
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and the good thing about a nice high car is you dont have to jack them up to remove the upper control arms lol


i'll go back tomorrow and see if it will pass even though i havent done the lower ball joints, i feel no play at all :S i installed a couple new split pins to make it look like i done some work anyway

[Hauntd ca3]

hondas,having wishbone front ends need to be jacked under the lca to take the spring tension off the ball joints.
do that and see what you find

[AccordB20A]

good good will be good to see this car with a wof too lol

[2oodoor]

geterdone, have a safe car
you can very carefully drill a hole to insert a zert fitting in those balljoints. That will tighten em up some unless they are really wallered.
What was that on the pipe? muffler butter?

[A18A]

i dunno what that means, but i took it back this morning and it passed yay for a legal car

[redaztec]

Congrats!

[A18A]

thank you, ive been driving this car everyday since lol, took it for its first trip the other day & everything worked mint, only had 1 problem though & that was the right mirror didnt fold when i locked the car, after jiggling some wires around its working mint again. all it needs now is air con also today my $300 honda had to rescue a $11000 mazda in the middle of town that failed. yay for honda

[Low_Rida]

There must be a million air cond's floating around on here, everyone rips them out coz it slows them down.... luckily mine came without

[A18A]

well i've got all the parts, just needa gas it up. i onestly have no idea how much that costs.

anyway today iwent to the car and noticed the carpet on the passenger side was full of water it's been raining all day, fair nuff, but i cant find where the water came from. there's no leaks around the windscreen, nothing around the doors, and when i poured 3 buckets of water over the car, not a single drop went inside. so i pulled some of the carpet out, and everywhere around the passenger area was completely dry, the rear carpet is dry too. and all the seats are dry as well, so the water couldnt have came through the side or top, only other place it could of came fromk is the bottom, but i dont see how as all the drain plugs are still intact. and the car has been in worse rain last week and stayed completely dry inside. i'm quite lost here :S anyway i have the dehumidifer in there drying out what rags couldnt soak up lol

[Hauntd ca3]

sunroof drains if you have a sunroof

[Civic Accord Honda]

sunroof drains if you have a sunroof

he has no sunroof because he is a winrar

[A18A]

yeah no sunroof. it was pissing down today & theres no water in the car so dunno what the problem was then but it hasnt done it again. oh yeah i'm also winrar

[Hauntd ca3]

tis sad to have no sunroof but cuts one more leak point out

[AccordB20A]

i hate rustroofs. Honda really fucked up when designing that part of the car

[Hauntd ca3]

just gota keep the drains clear

[A18A]

still a mystery why the car was smoking & why it leaked inside. hasnt done either since so its all good lol.

i pulled the rear bumper off to check for rust, and to my surprise yay there is none


oh wait spoke too soon

and i dont even have a mint one of those areas there to replace it with either. as long as it dont fail as much as my vigor did in that area it should be ok.. for now

anyway heres a couple other random pics of it ive taken:

[forrest89sei]

Yay

[AccordB20A]

typical they all rust there, at least the wof guy cant see it hahahahaha

[A18A]

yeah i reckon. but i'll still get it fixed before it starts to affect how my boot closes lol

[Hauntd ca3]

have you checked under the rear windscreen trim.
my boot leaked and couldnt see a hole till i pulled that off.